Your flaws are my pain: Linking empathy to vicarious embarrassment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Krach, Sören ^a   Cohrs, Jan Christopher ^b   de Echeverría Loebell, Nicole Cruz ^a   Kircher, Tilo ^a   Sommer, Jens ^a   Jansen, Andreas ^a   Paulus, Frieder Michel ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; SOCIAL PAIN; VICARIOUS EMBARASSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 79954570129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018675     Document Type: Article

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